Content directory:

· Rune Alpha Protocol = Runes Protocol?

· Casey clarifies: Rune Alpha has nothing to do with me

· It is difficult to distinguish between real and fake Rune. What are Rune Alpha and Runes?

· Assets are transferred after the user signs? Rune Alpha’s security raises questions

· Rune Alpha responds to security concerns

Recently, the Bitcoin network inscription project Rune Alpha ( @runealpha_btc ) has caused controversy in the community about its legitimacy and security.

Rune Alpha Protocol=Runes Protocol?

On December 5, the Bitcoin network inscription project Rune Alpha mainnet was officially launched, and the first token issued was $COOK.

At the beginning of its launch, Rune Alpha attracted many players to mint because many users regarded it as the Runes protocol proposed by Ordinals founder Casey Rodarmor ( @rodarmor ).

With the Ordinals making a big splash in front of them, the market also maintains high expectations for the Runes Agreement. But now the community has not yet waited for the Runes protocol, but has waited for Rune Alpha. Because the names of Rune Alpha and Runes are close, the market generally believes that they are the same. A user specifically @Casey in the comment area below the Rune Alpha account asked Casey whether Rune Alpha has an agreement for its distribution.

Casey clarifies: Rune Alpha has nothing to do with me

Perhaps because of the increasing number of inquiries received, this morning, Casey issued a statement regarding the legitimacy of Rune Alpha: "None of them have anything to do with me, and when (official) Runes are released, these Runes will not be retroactively identified. "

But as the comment in the comment area said, this clarification letter "came too late, the market is already FOMO, and people are still minting Rune Alpha."

Subsequently, Rune Alpha also forwarded Casey's news and stated that Rune Alpha has indeed nothing to do with Casey, and the project team has not had personal contact with Casey. All discussions are at the technical level: "However, we are built on ord 0.11.1 On the basis of , the following are implementation instructions. The version of Rune we are releasing is located in the Ordinal repository." At the same time, Rune Alpha also attached a link to github to prove that it is a fork version of the Ordinals protocol.

It’s hard to distinguish between real and fake Rune, what exactly are Rune Alpha and Runes?

In fact, Rune Alpha and Runes are two different protocols.

First of all, Runes was proposed by Ordinals founder Casey Rodarmor on September 26 this year. It is a new protocol based on the Bitcoin network and will serve as a potential alternative to BRC20. At that time, Casey Rodarmor said that alternative token protocols like Runes would not leave a large amount of "junk UTXO" on the Bitcoin network like the BRC20 token. But the Runes protocol has not yet been officially launched.

Rune Alpha, as officially stated, is a Bitcoin network inscription project, built on ord 0.11.1, its version is located in the Ordinal repository, but has nothing to do with Casey's Runes protocol.

Therefore, Rune Alpha, which was launched before the real Runes protocol, not only took advantage of the popularity of Casey and Runes protocols, but also caused doubts in the community due to security issues.

Are assets transferred after the user signs? Rune Alpha’s security raises questions

It is understood that the gameplay of Rune Alpha is slightly different from other projects in that it is "limited time and unlimited." Users can mint within 150 blocks from 819863 to 820013. Each mint can be minted with 1,000 coins, and there is no limit on the total amount.

According to dune dashboard data, as of press time, 58.7% of the Rune Alpha engraving progress has been completed, 88 of the total 150 blocks have been inscribed, 106,337 blocks have been inscribed, and there are 7,114 holders.

However, after being launched on the mainnet, BlockBeats noticed that Rune Alpha also caused a lot of doubts in the community. For example, community KOL Yan Practice ( @practice_y11 ) pointed out that some users had a situation where "all assets signed by the user were transferred." Specifically, a user on Rune Alpha "asked you to sign to transfer all assets after going long."

Many users in the community pointed out that during the interaction with Rune Alpha, Rune Alpha will send out the inscriptions in the account as gas when there is no gas.

Rune Alpha responds to security concerns

In response, Rune Alpha responded, "This is a wallet issue and we have issued a warning to all users in Discord." At the same time, according to BlockBeats observation, there are also many users who use it normally, and the above-mentioned users do not appear.

In this regard, community KOL and Ordinals contributor DrJinglee ( @ordjingle ) said: "Many people in the market can't tell which rune is which. It is recommended that tutorial authors include safety tips such as using a new wallet when introducing new things. "